Press
Release
Technology’s Most
Innovative Showcase Kicks Off in San Francisco
Oracle OpenWorld, San Francisco, Calif.—Sep 29, 2017
This weekend, Oracle welcomes tens of thousands of customers and partners spanning 175 countries and over 18 million live-stream viewers to Oracle OpenWorld 2017. Located at San Francisco’s newly redesigned Moscone Center, conference events will span multiple venues in the city’s downtown from October 1-5. Heralded as the industry’s most important business and technology show, Oracle OpenWorld delivers unprecedented opportunities to hear from the greatest minds across all event programming, including actor and director Joseph Gordon-Levitt, former United States Senator Barbara Boxer, Executive Consultant for the Los Angeles Clippers Jerry West, former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, and President of the Council on Foreign Relations Richard Haass.
On Sunday, Oracle CTO and Executive Chairman Larry Ellison opens the event with a special keynote showcasing all of the innovations delivered in the Oracle Cloud. Mainstage presentations will continue throughout the week, featuring Ellison, Oracle CEO Mark Hurd, and Oracle President of Product Development Thomas Kurian. Leaders from the world’s most interesting brands, including Carbon, Trek, FexEx and Gap, will join Oracle executives on stage to discuss pressing topics impacting business and technology today and in the future.
This year, Oracle OpenWorld brings innovation to learning through a new series of session formats developed in collaboration with Stanford University, as well as reimagined exhibition halls. The conference’s latest iteration of “Collective Learning” features cutting edge session designs, including: Brain Snacks, 1:1 conversations with fellow experts, and Make Your Case, hands-on workshops tackling the best Oracle case studies. Oracle OpenWorld Exchange, the conference’s redesigned exhibition hall, debuts to foster community, spark learning, promote innovation, and unite our customers, partners, and attendees.
“As we raise the curtain on Oracle OpenWorld 2017, we welcome more than 60,000 customers and partners to learn about transforming their business with Oracle Cloud,” said Judy Sim, Oracle’s Chief Marketing Officer. “The event has evolved as our customers’ needs have changed and is now one of the leading technology conferences in the world. Today, we are thrilled to bring a positive economic impact worth more than $3 billion to the City of San Francisco over the last 20 years.”
To Learn and
Explore:
·
Sessions: Tap into an elite network of world-class
speakers totaling 67,500+ years of industry experience. Select from 2,311
sessions presented by 3,048 customer and partner speakers, more than 523 Oracle
demos and case studies showcasing emerging technology, as well as hundreds of
partner and customer exhibitions.
o Sunday,
October 1, 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
§ Oracle CTO and Executive
Chairman Larry Ellison opens the conference with an inside look at the future
of Oracle Cloud and its innovation path.
§ Doug Fisher, Senior Vice
President and General Manager, Software and Services Group, Intel, presents the
power of data, and how data offers massive enterprise-class cloud computing
opportunities.
o Monday,
October 2, 9:00 a.m. – 10:15 p.m.
§ Oracle CEO Mark Hurd reveals
where we are now and where we are headed in a cloud foundational world. Joining
him on stage will be leaders from Oracle customers Bloom Energy, FedEx and Gap.
o Tuesday,
October 3
§ 9:00
a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
– Oracle President of Product Development Thomas Kurian and Dave Donatelli,
Oracle Executive Vice President, Cloud Business Group, showcase how Oracle Cloud
is harnessing the power of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence,
Internet of Things, and blockchain to transform organizations of all sizes.
They will be joined by Richard Noble, Director of the Bloodhound Project, an
inspiring initiative that engages the next generation in science, technology,
engineering and math by aiming to surpass the world land speed record.
§ 2:00
p.m. – 3:00 p.m. – Larry
Ellison unveils the future of databases in the cloud, including Oracle
Autonomous Database, the world’s first “self-driving” database.
o Wednesday,
October 4, 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
§ Oracle
CEO Mark Hurd returns to the mainstage with NetSuite’s Executive Vice
President of Development Evan Goldberg and special guests, to discuss the role
technology plays in getting ahead of the competition.
·
Oracle’s Leader’s Circle: Connect with luminaries on
industry trends, foreign affairs, economics and security at this exclusive,
invitation-only executive program hosted by Oracle CEOs Safra Catz and Mark
Hurd. Join Senator Barbara Boxer and Newt Gingrich, 50th Speaker of
the U.S. House of Representatives for a provocative discussion about the future
of the United States.
·
The Innovation Studio: Experience innovations from
Design Tech High School
students and Oracle Education Foundation. Meet startups from Oracle’s Startup Cloud
Accelerator, and talk with Oracle customers, partners, and industry
business unit experts.
·
Oracle Cloud User Experience Lab: Experience hands-on
demos of the latest Release 13 Oracle Cloud Applications, and learn about
Oracle’s vision for the future of work, including experimental robotics,
artificial intelligence, augmented reality, chatbots, and more of the emerging
technology tools in the smart UX toolkit.
·
JavaOne Developer Lounge: Use Oracle Internet of
Things (IoT) and Big Data technologies to brew your own beer. Create your own
sculptures and furniture with a 3D printer. Relive “The Matrix” and shoot your
own slow motion video with 60 Raspberry Pi cameras in the BulletTime Photo
Booth. Interact with a cloud chatbot robot powered by the Oracle Intelligent
Bots running on Oracle Mobile Cloud Service.
·
Oracle Code Event: Join developers from around the
world in this one-day event covering machine learning, chatbots, cloud,
databases, programming languages, DevOps, and much more.
·
Oracle NetSuite SuiteConnect:
The best of SuiteWorld comes to Oracle OpenWorld for the first time. Held on
October 4, this program features NetSuite users, Oracle executives, product
experts and partners.
To Support the
Community and Environment:
·
Oracle Academy’s JavaOne4Kids: Designed for children
ages 10-16, attendees can use Raspberry Pi and Java programming to catch
escaped Pokemon; create a robot and bring it to life; make computer games using
Greenfoot and Stride; among other fun activities. Oracle Academy is one of
Oracle’s key investments in our collective future. In fiscal year 2016, the
program impacted over 3.5 million students in 120 countries through $3.75
billion in direct and in-direct resources.
·
Plant a Billion
Trees: Learn how The Nature Conservancy and Oracle Giving
are helping to advance reforestation globally. As part of its participation in
The Nature Conservancy’s Plant a Billion trees initiative, Oracle has already
achieved 41 percent of its goal to plant one million trees.
·
Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International: Discover how
Oracle Cloud is helping to save the gorillas. Get a sneak peek of an upcoming
National Geographic three-part special on Dian Fossey’s life and work as a
gorilla conservationist. Hear from Tara Stoinski, President, CEO and Chief
Scientific Officer of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund about its 27-year
partnership with Oracle, and how Oracle Cloud technology has enabled the
organization to revolutionize its data management and make its database – the
world’s largest, most comprehensive collection of data on a wild great ape
population – available to scientists, researchers and students without charge.
·
Ride for a Reason: Support the victims of the recent
hurricanes by choosing Lyft for Oracle OpenWorld transportation. Between
October 1-5, five percent of the cost of rides will be donated to the American
Red Cross. Enter code OOW17 using a Lyft business profile.
To Connect and
Play:
·
Oracle CloudFest.17: Dance the night away with Grammy
award winners The Chainsmokers and sing along with pop sensation Ellie Goulding
at Oracle’s legendary customer appreciation event taking place on October 4 at
AT&T Park.
·
SuiteConnect NextUp:
Celebrate the day’s experiences at a special concert with Royal Machines,
joined by “special guests” on October 3 at Howard Street mainstage.
- Live Stream
keynotes from Oracle OpenWorld
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- Follow @Oracle on Twitter for the latest
#oow17
Julie Sugishita
Oracle Corporate Communications
+1.650.506.0076
julie.sugishita@oracle.com
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